Industry+Policy

There needs to be more transparency and simplicity in the retirement village sector. This was the crux of senior law lecturer Dr Lucy Cradduck’s verbal submission to the 2007 Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs’ inquiry into older people ...

RSL Care + RDNS will now be known as Bolton Clarke. The organisation was formed following a merger between the two organisations in 2015. Chief executive Stephen Muggleton said while the previous names served the respective organisations well in their own markets, ...

BlueCross and Sapphire Care have announced they are set to merge. The companies will combine business operations in the coming months and anticipate completion later this year. The two providers made the announcement via a joint communiqué penned by BlueCross ...

Excitement over the idea of dementia villages has been bubbling in the aged care sector over the past several years. Pioneered overseas in countries like the Netherlands, these care facilities resemble small contained towns, complete with amenities like cafés, beauty ...

Around half of Queensland’s nurses and midwives say they have experienced workplace violence in the three months prior to a survey of state union members. This is up from around 40 per cent reported in 2001. The survey of 2397 ...

Minister for aged care Ken Wyatt has opened the new headquarters of an online marketplace that connects workers with clients. The Better Caring platform supports people with a disability or those who are ageing to find and hire local care ...

Minister for aged care and Indigenous health Ken Wyatt has announced a stack of new funding measures for the aged care sector this week. Here, we detail the key announcements and the industry’s reaction. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander support ...

An unapologetic approach to care and a focus on resident choice. These are two of the tenets of a Dutch approach to aged care that struck founder and chief executive of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, during her recent trip ...